Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-09-04
[Post from Infoglide] Shell Games
“We’ve talked before about how some employers will dissolve a company, then re-form it with the same people but under a new name. The objective? Reduce payments to workers’ compensation programs, where premiums are based on the historical level of claims. Erase the history by forming a new company, and voila! Your premiums are now lower, but there’s a catch – doing that constitutes fraud and it’s illegal.”
OCDQ Blog: To Parse or Not To Parse
[Jim Harris] “Data matching often uses data standardization to prepare its input. This allows for more direct and reliable comparisons of parsed sub-fields with standardized values, decreases the failure to match records because of data variations, and increases the probability of effective match results.”
kpvi.com: Idaho Falls Woman Arrested in Undercover Lottery Sting
“An undercover operative gave McKelley a decoy lottery ticket that McKelley thought was worth at least $100,000. She kept the ticket and took [it] to Boise to the Idaho Lottery Headquarters to collect. Police arrested her when she showed up and she now faces felony charges of presenting an illegally obtained lottery ticket.”
Initiate Blog: Data Hubs: Master Data Repository or Master Data Service?
“The current reality is that the concept of a data hub includes a much more active approach to data than just storage of a “golden record”. The data hub makes the best decisions on entity and relationship resolution by arbitrating the content of data in the source systems where the master data is created.”
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